This is an analysis of the poem Observing 'Their' Ways that begins with:
I remember the elders.
And observing 'their' ways....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: AAXXbcX cbXDAXe AAbXDAe
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 7,7,7,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1010010 101011 11111 11111 1011101 10110110 0111110011 1101101010 1100 00100010 0100 11111010 101110101 0010010101010 1010010 101011 101111 1111111111 0100 11111010 00101111101010
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 205
- Average number of words per stanza: 43
- Amount of lines: 21
- Average number of symbols per line: 28 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; i, to, as are repeated.
The poet repeated the same word better at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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